No 10 defends Rishi Sunak after he flies to Leeds in RAF jet
Downing Street has defended Rishi Sunak after the Prime Minister used an RAF plane to fly to Leeds yesterday for an NHS-related visit.
A photograph posted on the official No10 flickr account showed Mr Sunak boarding the plane as he travelled to a healthcare centre where he was then pictured speaking to staff and patients.
Asked why Mr Sunak had not taken the train to Leeds instead, the Prime Minister’s Official Spokesman said he had flown because it made the “most effective use of his time”.
The spokesman said: “The transport the Prime Minister takes will vary and always be done in the interests of what’s the most effective use of his time, enabling him to get around the entirety of the UK when there is a great deal of pressure on his time and it will vary on what is the most appropriate.”
Angela Rayner, Labour’s deputy leader, said that “families will be rightly angered by this show of extravagance by Rishi Sunak… at the height of a cost-of-living crisis”.
